In 2009, the average ACT score for entering freshmen was 24.4, up from 24 in 2007—meeting the University's Strategic Plan 2010 goal three years early.

The UAB Model Arab League team is among the best government model teams in the nation, with over five years of expansion and award-winning achievement, including multiple Outstanding Delegation awards.

The UAB Mock Trial team is consistently among the nation's best as a perennial Top 25 program. The program enjoyed its greatest success in 2006, when the team won the national title in the Silver Division, defeating the defending national champions from Harvard University. (Take that, Ivy!)

UAB accounting graduates' first-time pass rates on the CPA exam are 30 percent higher than the national average.

During the past 11 years, a UAB graduate has achieved the highest score in Alabama on the CPA exam nine times.

UAB School of Business finance graduates pass the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam at a rate 20 percent higher than the national average.

A UAB School of Engineering student has been named by the ASPE (Alabama Society of Professional Engineers) as the state of Alabama's Outstanding Undergraduate Student of the Year from 2004 through 2009 and nine of the past 12 years.Since 2000, UAB has produced seven Fulbright Scholars, six Phi Kappa Phi Fellows, eight Goldwater Scholars, five National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellows, six Truman Scholars, one Marshall Scholar, and one Rhodes Scholar.

UAB is nationally ranked among the top 20 in total federal research funding in key areas of health sciences, receiving more than $433 million dollars in funding.

In March of 2010, The Scientist magazine ranked UAB 24th on among its Best Places to Work for Postdoctoral Fellows, up from its 56th in 2008.

And in 2008, The Scientist ranked us among their Top 5 Best Places to Work in Academia.

As of 2009, the Carnegie Foundation classifies UAB as an institution of “very high research activity"—the only university in Alabama to receive that classification, and one of only 96 public and private universities in the entire nation.

The Section on Statistical Genetics (SSG) in the School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics is one of the largest in the U.S.

The School of Health Professions is first in the nation in research funding from the National Institutes of Health, holding first or second place for 26 consecutive years.

The UAB Medical Scientist Training Program has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1992.